Are antibiotics required after gallbladder surgery?

Even after taking all the precautions and prophylactic measure , using sterile and aseptic conditions, antibiotics are still used in gall bladder surgery, be it laparotomy or laparoscopic surgery , as a precaution to avoid infection if any and promote healthy and quick wound healing. read more

Jean Marc Regimbeau, M.D., Ph.D., of the Amiens University Medical Center, Amiens, France, and colleagues randomly assigned 414 patients with mild or moderate acute calculous cholecystitis to continue with a preoperative antibiotic regimen (amoxicillin plus clavulanic acid) or receive no antibiotics after cholecystectomy. read more

Postoperative antibiotics after gallbladder removal do not reduce the risk of infection, researchers reported. In a randomized trial, the infection rate after cholecystectomy was virtually identical with and without postop amoxicillin and clavulanic acid, according to Jean-Marc Regimbeau, MD, PhD, of CHU Nord Amiens and the University of Picardie in Amiens, France, and colleagues. read more